If you're looking for a career where your creative flair can shine, this industry area can be very rewarding and fulfilling. Offering a wide range of areas that you can specialise in including interior design, drawing, fashion design, printing and graphic arts, jewellery manufacturing, visual arts, music, floristry, and film and photography, the creative industries offer something for everyone.
Many of these qualifications and courses are delivered by practising artists, designers and craftspeople with excellent studios and facilities, offering you hands-on experience in both theory and practical skills. Specialist qualifications include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural arts, and multimedia game development.
Whether you want to launch your creative idea into a new business venture, get into the music business or fine tune your design skills, there's a qualification or course just for you.
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This is an exciting industry area that offers a huge range of training options. Use the course search below to find out more.
Use the Skills Ready filters to find fee-free or low fee courses and skill sets. You can also use the keyword search, and the other filters, to refine the search results. Then select a qualification or course title from the list, to find out more about the course and where it is available.
The list presented here is only for this industry category.
This course focuses on instrumental/vocal technique and performance skills, music literacy and aural training and music analysis to unleash your creativity and take your musical talents to the next level as a professional artist.
With this course, you'll learn about current music industry practices in the areas of studio recording and maintenance, live sound, music production, music arrangement, music technology and repairing/maintaining equipment and have the ability to set up your own studio or sound production business.
With this course, you'll discover how to take even more spectacular shots in a range of contexts and to manipulate the environment around you to enhance your photography; plus all the latest techniques and tricks in digital imaging and editing.
Animation and game art are two of the most fun, creative and interesting areas to work in! But if you're serious about a career in this competitive field, this course can get you there.
If you want to launch your career in media broadcasting, the Diploma of Screen and Media (Radio and Podcasting) could be the qualification for you. This is an exciting field, with great creativity and innovation happening globally and excellent career opportunities.
This course will build on your experience with quality training delivered in industry standard studios and on professionally-run productions; using the latest software, programs and equipment through practical and hands on training that will prepare you for working as part of a television or film crew.
If you dream of working in film, television, advertorial or digital media creating amazing looks and special effects with your makeup skills, this is the course for you! This qualification is the highest in Australia for this field — exactly what you need to get that dream job in this competitive industry as a specialist makeup artist and/or wig and hair stylist.
This qualification will provide you with developed skills and knowledge across many media including ceramics, digital art, glasswork, drawing and illustration, jewellery making, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textile design and wood design. If you're serious about a professional career as an artist, this is the course for you!
If you're ready to take the next step in your jewellery design career, the Diploma of Visual Arts (Jewellery Design) will build on your existing design and fabrication skills with new techniques and high level design abilities.
With this training, you'll be able to develop your design skills and knowledge through hands on projects where you get to take your ideas all the way from concept to prototype.
